Well the progress on the floors has come to a halt. We reached a point where we need my dad's help and he is at the lake for a few more days with my mom and nephew. Once he gets back we should have one or two more evenings of work and then we can start the fun part.....decorating!
This weekend I holed up in my house with an awful headache. I have a history of migraines, and was really apprehensive that one was coming. Luckily for me it stayed at a dull ache for the most part. The only bright side to the headache that wouldn't die is that I spent the weekend on the couch alone and got to read to my hearts content.
On Friday I started a new book, The Passage by Justin Cronin. I really enjoyed it, it was totally up my alley. I'm a sci-fi kid at heart, aside from the lack of dog dying it reminded me a lot of I Am Legend. I am at work and don't have it with me, but here is a plot summary I found online.... http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/2435/The-Passage “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.
After reading that (770 pages approx) I started on the Tres Navarre series by Rick Riordan -- who wrote the Percy Jackson books. The Tres Navarre series is a mystery series set in TX. I'm enjoying it so far, I think that Spencer would like it as well and I'm going to try to get him to start this one when I'm done! Here's the plot summary for Big Red Tequila, by Rick Riordan http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Big-Red-Tequila/Rick-Riordan/e/9780553576443
Meet Tres Navarre...tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble.
Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians' games all conspire to ruin his homecoming.
It's obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, turns up missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father's murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo....
So that was my weekend, my dad should be back in town soon so we can finish up these dang floors! I cannot wait to start the next project I have slated for us, re-staining the deck and doing some work on our closet!
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